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13 restaurants participating in Anegada Lobster Festival 2024

- Annual Anegada Lobster Festival slated for November 30 to December 1
Thirteen restaurants will showcase lobster samplers and meals over the weekend of November 30 to December 1, when the Virgin Islands (VI) celebrates the annual Anegada Lobster Festival. Photo: VINO/File
The Annual Anegada Lobster Festival is slated for November 30 to December 1, 2024. Photo: VINO/File
The Annual Anegada Lobster Festival is slated for November 30 to December 1, 2024. Photo: VINO/File
SETTING POINT, Anegada, VI- Thirteen restaurants will showcase lobster samplers and meals over the weekend of November 30 to December 1, when the Virgin Islands (VI) celebrates the annual Anegada Lobster Festival.

Now in its 12th year, this is the greatest number of restaurants to ever participate in what has been described as the grandest crustacean feast in the region.

'Lobster, Sun & Anegada Fun'

Themed “Lobster, Sun and Anegada Fun”, the celebration thrives on visitors making the rounds to Anegada’s finest eateries, watering holes and attractions.

“We are excited about the high level of participation by the businesses on the island for this year’s Anegada Lobster Festival. We will continue to work with industry partners and government and statutory agency partners to make the experience more seamless from arrival, throughout the festival experience, right through to departure,” said Clive L. McCoy, British Virgin Islands’ Director of Tourism in a press release today, September 18, 2024. 

“Stay tuned to our social media pages for updates including when we will be releasing our “flapbook”, which provides patrons with a guide to all things Lobster Festival, including a map, accommodations, marine and land transportation, attractions, restaurant menus, and reminders for a safe celebration,” he added.

What's new this year?

New this year, is a competition for the best lobster sampler, which will be judged by a renowned regional culinarian, Executive Chef Shane Huggins who is Chef Ambassador for Saint Martin’s Gastronomy Festival 2024.  The winner will win the first ever ALFFY Award along with bragging rights as creator of the top lobster sampler.

Another new feature being introduced is the sampler voucher which would be given out to approximately 600 lucky patrons, allowing them to get free samplers from participating restaurants. One voucher per person will be issued on a limited, first come first serve basis, between Saturday and Sunday.

Back by popular demand will be the Family Fun Day presented by the VI Recreation Trust which will showcase waterslides and pools, bouncy houses, for the enjoyment of the children and young at heart; musical entertainment greeting all arriving ferry passengers at the ferry dock; and the Party Cycle taking riders vibing and imbibing while enjoying the Anegada scenery. 

24 Responses to “13 restaurants participating in Anegada Lobster Festival 2024”

  • yuk (18/09/2024, 16:53) Like (9) Dislike (17) Reply
    Ayo still eating up all those sea cockroaches?
    • VIslander (18/09/2024, 17:57) Like (21) Dislike (4) Reply
      To each his own. If you don’t like it, don’t knock it. Shut your mouth and move on. Simple. All around the world people eat things that some may find downright disgusting. Do we try to force it down your throat?!
      • worse weekend (19/09/2024, 07:11) Like (10) Dislike (14) Reply
        thank goodness that so many of the rough and ignorant persons from tortola dont eat lobster - they will hopefully stay away. unfortunately many other loud unpleasant rough barely dressed tolans will come up and ruin anegada for the weekend. i will stay inside until they gone back.
    • Gunner (18/09/2024, 19:21) Like (3) Dislike (2) Reply
      @Yuk.. Yuk you.
  • 600? (18/09/2024, 19:22) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
    lol sound like tourist board footing the bill for this to cause 600 samples seems like you guys going cut another big cheque lol...can't get a report of FLOP Fest on the cay...we know we aint getting report for festival till bout 2 years from now
    • @600? (21/09/2024, 11:34) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      no they will ask all the restaurants to give away the free samplers and then ask them to keep to a certain price and more , yet they want to put other events on around the island that takes the footfall away from the restaurants that made the festival . I am out
  • WTF (18/09/2024, 20:12) Like (14) Dislike (1) Reply
    Is this event self-funding yet? Or are the taxpayers funding it? The deal when it was started was that it would be self-funded in a number of years or abandoned. We have roads, schools and healthcare that don't work. Why are we still giving handouts for parties? This is not a tourism event. The majority of participants are residents. Let's stop representing it as majoritively benefitical to tourism. It's a handout under the guise of tourism, and the majority of Anegadians don't even want it.
    • @wtf (21/09/2024, 11:38) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      I am a restaurant owner on Anegada and i agree fully, this event does nothing for tourism as its just pople from Tola coming up on the Sunday that DRIVES THE NUMBERS UP other than that this event is not worth the effort and the locals only go to a couple of places so the BVITB does nothing except set up at these 2 places and take pictures. Its a waste of time and funds. I asked years ag how much of the budget for advertising do they use up from Anegada on this festival .... the answer was about 70% and that is just to attract locals , its a joke
  • Not this year (18/09/2024, 20:20) Like (4) Dislike (3) Reply
    Don’t come for me if I did not call. Not interested, don’t eat seafood, don’t care about the entertainment and certainly don’t want to be around the classless people from Tortola.
  • Real Talk (18/09/2024, 20:22) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
    BEEN THERE DONE THAT LOST IT'S FLAVOUR
  • c (19/09/2024, 08:31) Like (3) Dislike (12) Reply
    @yuk. You're an Adventist, and I bet my last dollar you're sleeping with someone's husband. But yuk strupes
  • Truth (19/09/2024, 08:40) Like (9) Dislike (2) Reply
    As long as the rough riders from Tortola stay away. We don’t want to see the nasty dressed women with the bad weaves walking around .
  • Trump (19/09/2024, 09:11) Like (6) Dislike (2) Reply
    They are eating our dogs, eating our cats and now eating our scavengers........lol
    • @trump (19/09/2024, 15:32) Like (1) Dislike (4) Reply
      Correct, the Haitian migrants in Ohio is going in people yards and snatching up peoples dogs and cats killing them and eating them. Be careful with your pets. It is something to think about if your pet disappears from home. The Haitians and Chinese eat dog and cats. That is why I don’t eat Chinese food. CHICKEN AND BROCCOLI? BEEF AND BROCCOLI?
  • Real Macoy (19/09/2024, 09:34) Like (4) Dislike (11) Reply
    Please don't get it twisted. Most of those ladies who wears weaves are from Jamaica, Dominican Republic, St. Vincent, Guyana, Grenada and a few more Caribbean countries. A few Tortolians just start adjusting to the weave, but most are Caribbean immigrants.
    • @Real Macoy (19/09/2024, 10:24) Like (5) Dislike (2) Reply
      They are living on Tortola. We don’t want their kind on Anegada ruining everything. The tourist don’t want to see trash walking around dressed nasty and I would agree the bad weaves and claws on their fingers. Keep that S in Tortola.
    • @Real Macoy (19/09/2024, 10:31) Like (6) Dislike (2) Reply
      As a Tolian I am so ashamed but proud of my Anegada people for calling it as it is. My mother taught well so I will stay home,I dont want to be a blue fly.
    • @@RealMacoy (19/09/2024, 19:25) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
      The most glaring of adverse effect on the Territory is the imposed counter cultural infusion of the updeislun invasive infestations.
      Tolians ,BVIslanders not too.long ago were known for class and character..Now they are all clasless updeislun garrots. Quality is a foreign concept.
      INVEST...YES
      INFEST.....NO
      MONACO model..the way we must ????‍♀️ ???? ????‍♂️
  • PSA (19/09/2024, 12:39) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
    Don’t go to Lobster fest with the RATCHET GHETTO BEHAVIOR YOU ARE USE TO ON TORTOLA. ANEGADA IS NOT RATCHET OR GHETTO.
  • Don't count me in (19/09/2024, 12:56) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Huge lines and we get to order they say they ran out of lobster... I'd rather go over at a regular weekend...
  • Stirring the pot a bit (19/09/2024, 13:52) Like (7) Dislike (4) Reply
    So tell me, why is some of you black women on the Island trying to look like the white girls by wearing straight blond weaves? When have you ever seen a black woman with natural blond hair. I guess the skin bleaching is next.
    • @stirring the pot a bit (19/09/2024, 19:48) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
      I’m chiming in a bit as well, if you got to call em out, call em out. They want to call out the white girl but they want to look like the white girl with the long blonde straight weave down their back or they bleaching their skins to look white. lol, does that make any type of sense? Stop trying to be something that you’re not.
  • Call ah Lou (19/09/2024, 21:02) Like (1) Dislike (2) Reply
    The dregs of the CARICOMERS parading in decent places is unpleasant to see.
    Be mindful that these and those are now the DOMINANT cultural infestation and people of these VI imported and installed by the duly elected as a means of fostering their thievery and other illegal activities. I scorn their clownish and uncivilized behaviour but mostly their major contribution to crime on our shores. We are all in this ship pot together as "from the VI," unfortunately. Nothing hood can come out of this sepsis.
  • lmao (20/09/2024, 07:45) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Keep the skankaton on Tortola. Seen enough of the nastiness during Festival time. Don’t ruin lobster fest by showing up half naked with the busted lace fronts. A woman should always have some type of class and dignity about herself when out in public.


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